Take Time To Pray

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

 

Luke 11:1

God longs for us as believers to heed the importants of prayer in our lives. And this call is not just about a five-minute exercise during the morning devotion time, but it is a about taking time to come before God with our praise, concerns, and hearts desires.

 

It also allows us to become more sensitive to the voice of God as we seek Him and the direction that He is leading us in on a daily basis. Prayer is a vital tool to that helps us to discern and know God's will and purposes in our lives.

 

You see once you see prayer for what it truly is, you have learned that at the heart of all that you do—every decision, thought, or word you speak is based on prayer.

Watchman Nee has said it well:

 

Prayer is the rail for God's work. Indeed, prayer is to God's will as rails are to a train. The locomotive is full of power: it is capable of running a thousand miles a day. But if there are no rails, it cannot move forward a single inch. If it dares to move without them, it will soon sink into the earth. It may be able to travel over great distances, yet it cannot go to any place where no rails have been laid. And such is the relation between prayer and God's work. Without any doubt God is almighty and He works mightily, but He will not and cannot work if you and I do not labor together with Him in prayer, prepare the way for His will, and pray "with all prayer and supplication" (Ephesians 6:18) to grant Him the maneuverability to so work. Many are the things, which God wills to do, and would like to do, but His hands are bound because His children do not sympathize with Him and have not prayed so as to prepare ways for Him. Let me say to all who have wholly given themselves to God: Do examine yourselves and see if in this respect you have limited Him day after day.¹

Is prayer a vital part of your life?

 

If not, put prayer as top priority on your list, instead of making it an afterthought. You will then begin to see renewed power in your life from just that—a prayer.

 

 

[1]Watchman Nee, Let Us Pray (New York, New York: Christian Fellowship Publishers, 1977), 11.